‘He Kills the Fly Like He Kills the Economy’

Gee whiz, people . . . it’s not like he was using chopsticks or something.Note, by the way, the lack of diplomacy.

At the Drudge Report early this morning was a link to a CNBC interview during which the president finally got the better of a large housefly that was apparently attracted to the scent of failure. (I say this because, back on the campaign trail, Obama was plagued by flies as well. Not to mention the accounts that his campaign plane smelled terrible.)

While looking for a YouTube clip, I stumbled upon a version from BarelyPolitical.com which had been overdubbed like a bad Kung Fu movie — well, if there were such a thing as a bad Kung Fu movie. I thought it better than the CNBC original. The title of this post comes from one of the comments beneath the YouTube clip.

I found that quite alarming really. First of all, I think that any dignified person would have totally ignored a harmless fly buzzing around them while being interviewed. Then, to swat the fly with his bare hand? Yuk! Think of where that fly has been!Then, Obama was like a lizard, totally focused on that fly and more intent on swatting it than on the interviewer. I almost expected him to stick out his tongue and slurp up that fly!

The title is said to be a reference to the Hebrew name Beelzebub (בעל זבוב, Ba'al-zvuv, "god of the fly", "host of the fly" or literally "Lord of Flies"), a name sometimes used as a synonym for Satan.[3] The title of the book, in turn, has itself become a metaphor for a power struggle in a chaotic situation.

Wonder what the Democrats who were taken in by Obama will say in order NOT to vote for him again? They won't want to admit to having made a grave mistake, so do we need to be thinking of a mantra for them, or a label?